Improvement in shirt-collar fastenings



G. STBASZER. Shirt-Collar Fastenings.

Patented Dec. 30,1873.

INQVE mom ATT'EST:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE STRASZER, OF MANCHESTER, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO HECTOR MONEILL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRT-COLLAR FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,974, datc d December 30, 1873; application filed December 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE STRASZER, of Manchester, St. Louis county, Missouri, have invented an Improvement in Shirt-Collar Fastenings, of which the followingis a specification:

This invention consists of a plate, which is attached to the neck-band of the shirt by a brooch-pin, and to which is hinged a keeper, which, in use, stands outside the ends of the collar, and is held in position by a button that turns in the former plate, and passes through the button'holes of the collar, and through a slot in the front plate or keeper.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front View, showing the device in use. Fig. 2 is a back perspective view. Fig. 3 is a side View. Fig. 4 is a back perspective view of a modification.

A is the back plate, which carries a hinged brooch-pin, B, of ordinary construction. The pin B is for engagement in the neck-band of the shirt, and may be attached to the outer end of the same before the shirt is put on. Hinged at a to the plate A is a keeper, consisting of a plate, O, having a slot, 0, to allow the passage of the button D. The button D turns in the plate A in such a manner as to be parallel with or across the slot 0, so that when the plate or keeper is turned up, and the button turned into a vertical position, as shown, the keeper cannot drop, but holds the ends of the collar E firmly in position.

The fastener may be made ornamental, so as to admit of wearing without a cravat; or may be made with a'device for the attachment of the common butterfi y-cravat usually worn with paper collars.

In Fi 4 the pin B is shown in a horizontal instead of a perpendicular position; but the fastening is, in other respects, similar to that.

shown in the other figures.

I claim as my invention The collar-fastener, consisting of the plate A, pin B, turn stud or button D, and keeper O, having a slot, 0, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses: GEORGE STRASZER.

SAM. KNIGHT, ROBERT BURNS. 

